The Flame of Remembrance event, lit for Capt Harshan at the Parachute Regiment Training Centre, RT Nagar, on Saturday, December 10, 2011 was also covered by the Bangalore edition of the Malayalam dailies with equal fervor, and mostly due to the concerted efforts of a spirited band of Kazhakians from the Bangalore SSKZM Alumni Chapter.

A ‘Flame of Remembrance’ for Capt R Harshan, who laid down his life fighting terrorists in Kashmir in March 2007, was lit at the Parachute Regiment Training Centre, RT Nagar, on Saturday. Harshan, who was only 27, was conferred the Ashok Chakra the same year, the youngest recipient of the peace-time gallantry award.

The bust of 2Lt. Radha Mohan Naresh, the first alumnus of SSKZM to make the supreme sacrifice for the country, was unveiled by Mr. KC Venugopal, Minister of State for Power, on 10 December 2011, on the 40th death anniversary of our martyr.

Lt Col KV Thomas ( 704/ 1976) was among the three that perished with the BSF helicopter on anti-Naxal duty that crashed on the outskirts of Ranchi today, killing the other pilot Captain S P Singh and technician Manoj Kumar Swain on board.

At 21, Second Lt Naresh was in the prime of youth when he was called in, barely a week after being commissioned into the JAT Regiment, to defend a post along the Munawar Tawi River in Jammu & Kashmir’s Chhamb sector.

Sunil Kumar A K (1367 ) aka Sunil Nedungadi, came all the way from Dubai to offer his Guruvandanam in the way he knows best, through a playlist of some of the best compositions that bring forth the true love, devotion and marked respect that one feels towards a Learned One.

The Late Lt Cdr N Madhavan Potti, from the batch of 1973, was the ‘Executive Officer’ (the ‘Second-in- Command’) of warship INS Andaman (A Russian-built Petya class anti-submarine frigate ship, callsign P-74) when it sank in the turbulent waters of the Bay of Bengal in Aug 1990.